New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-31
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
AR. BLAINE'S POSITIVE DENIAL OF sOME
CURRENT RUMORS.

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STONE IN FIGHTING MooD-PRAIsE FOR
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LONDON. July 3o-1he TimeSs Philadelphia
dispatch says that while the Ohio Republican
Convention was sitting telegram was received
announcing that Mr.. Blaine had determined 10
shorten his English tour and would forthwith
return home. This being telegraphed to Mr.
,yaine he answers: II do not expect to return
home until next year. and have had no COM
munication direct or indirect with any person IN
Ohio since 1 came to Europe Mr.. Blame Il
still staying with Mr.. Carnegie in Perthshire'
English comments on Mr.. Sherman's nomina-
ton are of the usual amusing character. one
naper treats It as the act of the whole Repubil-
can party. "Should Mr. Blaine decide observes
the writer, TO contest the Ohio nomination. Mr.
'sberman will probably have to give way
Controversy about the Round Table confer
cpee becomes daily more lively; daily, also
more bitter The political divergences between
Sir George Trevelyan and Mr.. Chamberlain have
ended in personal quarrel. Sir George Trcvel-
vans sensitiveness to legitimate criticism has
led him to retort with insinuations against Nlr.
rbamberlain which are not supported by facts
Sir William Harcourt has Joined in the fray.
The whole question is complicated by trivial
aisaereements. The public is amused by the
personalities, but the point really at issue ls'
who broke of the conference. and why. slr
William Harcourt and Sir George Irevelyan say;
1T was because Mr.. Chamberlain. while profess
ing privately to desire reunion OF the Aperai
party, was publicly attacking his old colleagues
in language which proved he had no real wish
that the negotiations should succeed Mr.
Chamberlain rejoins mo; the truth is thar
when Mr.. Gladstone had to put on paper definite
statement of the points which he was ready
to modify his Home Rule scheme, he could not
do So He found it impossible to satisfy both
MIR. Parnen and the Liberal Unionists' MI.
Bright sums up the matter from his own point
>of view with his usual terseness: Mr.. Gladstone
has led the Liberal party into difficulty and
danger. The country will not let him go forward
and Mr.. Parnell win not let him 60 back"
Lord Harrington too takes share in the dis
cussion:- my conditions" he says in substance
"have been before the public and have never
varied. Mr. Gladstone lately asked me
to propose a conference, but when, during the
general election, q correspondent invited him to
discuss those conditions his answer was. 1 am
not going q step into the matter"
Mr. Gladstone in q very remarkable speech
delivered yesterday to London Liberals declined
TO contribute anything toward clearing up the
points in dispute between his friends and his
foes What he did to intimate a hope that
Lord Harrington and others might still come
back. but not Mr.. Chamberlain. lie describes
with satirical emphasis Mr.. Chamberlain as hav-
ing gone over to the classes. and tells him ne
can hope for no future among those who toii
not. neither do they spin. Mr.. Gladstone was In
his most hopeful and youthful vein. He seems
to believe in a coming Liberal triumph, even
without reunion of the Liberal party. He re.
states three points on which he has offered con-
ccssions, but adds nothing to them. He re-
proaches the Liberal Unionists with having be-
come q mere wing of the Tory party He
justifes his own course during the session and
once more charges upon the Tory Government
the responsibility for the barrenness Of the session
1t is fighting speech all through.
Mr.. Gladstone does in fact believe, and his
friends know he believes, the country is coming
round to him. He would like to compass the
dissolution of Parliament at no distant date.
Hence his ingenious suggestion that the Liberal
s Unionists really ought not to go on voting with
the Ministry on non-Irish questions. If they
would not, the Ministry might be turned out
But If Mr. Gladstone has nothing better than
this in reserve, dissolution is distant indeed.
Since the storm which blew Mr.. Healy out
Of the House of Commons, things have been
going more smoothly. Mr.. .Parnell does not get
his way. The Ministry will not make the
concessions he wants. But the chances now arc
that the bill will get through Committee on
Monday. Mr.. Chamberlain came to Mr.. Parnells
support last night on one point, with the result
that Mr. Balfour yielded to Mr.. Chamberlain
substantially what he had refused to Mr.. Parnell.
The Healy episode is regretted on both sides.
che moro so as Mr.. Healy frankly admitted the
offence for which nevertheless he refused to
apologize Mr.. Courtneys rcbuke to the Tories
helps to keep the balance even What he said to
Mr. De Lisle applies to knot Of young Tory
members below the gangway. They arc fire.
qucntly disordcrly.
Sir George 1fcvclyan's election in Glasgow
b still believed to be safe, but the fight is
harder than tho. Liberals expected. The Hon.
Evelyn Ashley gets strong support from Lord
Horx;rr<nr Mx Chamheyia nd others. and
Sir George Trevelyan has found himself put on
the defensive.
The Bcresford incident ends as everybody